Harvester-gaveler



(No Model.)

F. W. RANDALL. Harvester Gaveler. No. 233,699. Patenif dDct. 26,1880.

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HARVESTER-GAVELER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,699, dated October 26, 1880.

' Application filed April 22, 1880.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS W. RANDALL, of Tekonsha, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Harvester Gavelers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce a gaveling device for a harvester, by means of which the cut grain, after being moved in the ordinary way by automatic rakes, back upon an extended part of the platform, may be gathered into compact gavels for automatic binding, the construction and arrangement of the parts being fully explained hereinafter.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a reaper-platform and other parts with my improvements attached; Fig. 2, an elevation of the left side of the reaper, indicated by the arrow 3 in Fig. 1; and Figs. 3 and 4 details.

A is the platform; B, the driving-wheel; (l, the cutter-bar; D, the divider; b, the platform-rake, and F the rake-standard, all ordinary parts of a self -raking grain-harvester. The platform A is continued even and unbroken to the left of and around the drivingwheel, forming an overhanging part, G, as shown, over which overhanging part and near the said wheel is hung a binding device, I).

d is a gaveling-rake or gaveler, which, by proper actuating mechanism,is caused to sweep the overhanging platform G and collect the grain brought onto said platform by the rake 1) into a compact gavel convenient to the binder. The gaveler d has a long curved stale, f, which, when said gaveler is back, as shown in Fig. 1, rests directly over the curve-board g, at the rear of the platform, said stale being hinged upon a vertical stud, a, as shown.

0 is a lever, lying horizontally under the platform, hung to the overhanging platform G upon a bolt, 0, the other end of which lever is slotted to receive the lower end of a vertical stud, h, reaching down from the gaveler-stale f.

s is a connecting rod, joined to the lever c by a bolt, 1 lying beneath the platform, having its front end turned at right angles up through a slot in the platform, and vertically slotted to receive the crank-pin of a wheel, k, secured to the driving-wheel shaft, by means (N0 model.)

of which connected parts a radial and vibratory motion may be given to the gaveler as the said wheel rolls along the ground.

The curve-board, g, as shown in Fig. 2, is vertically slotted to receive the stud h, and the platform Alias a curved slot, Z, so as to make room for said stud as the gaveler is swung for ward, as above described. The gaveler has vertical fingers p, and a retroverted bow, 1", within which bow the point of the binder-arm strikes as it descends to encircle the gavel with the band, it being, on account of said bow, enabled to reach behind the straw.

The binder-arm b is secured to a shaft, 1?, held over the platform by a standard, 4), said shaft being oscillated by means of a crankarm, 0, connected by a rod, 00, to a crank, it, upon the driving-shaft. This binding mechani'sm, however, is old, and forms no part of the invention, the design being to attach to the overhanging platform some efi'ective wire, twine, or other binding device to operate in conjunction with the gaveler d.

The cut grain, falling upon the platform A, is swept by the rake b, operated from the rakestandard F, around upon the overhanging platform Gr, when it is collected into a gavel by the gaveler d, as above described, and bound, and, by means of the guard 01, dropped from the reaper at H, each bundle as it is bound pushing off the proceeding one.

A section, 9, of the overhanging platform G, indicated by the dash-dot line a, is separate from, but closely jointed to, the remainder of the platform, as shown in Fig. 1.

By removing the bolts 0 and i and swinging the lever 0 around under the platform out of the way, as shown at c, the section g may be removed, so that the gavels raked from the platform A will fall upon the ground, as usual, in case the harvester is used only as a selfraker, the binding mechanism being previously thrown out of gear. The gaveler d, as it moves the grain toward the binder, presses said grain against the band held by the binding-arm and reaching beneath the platform.

Secondary platforms for reapers in addition to the main platforms are old, but they have been heretofore dropped below the main platform or formed in some other manner.

By making the platform continuous and unbroken from the cutter-bar around to the left overhanging edge, the grain has a smooth fioor upon which to slide as it is raked back and to the binder, and it allows, if desirable, of havin g the whole curve-board move forward in the operation of gaveling the grain, instead of a rake and stale. as above described.

By making the platform straight and continuous and employing the gaveler, as shown, the gavels are formed without elevating or dropping the grain, and at a very small outlay of power.

I do not claim secondary or auxiliary platforms, broadly; but

What I claim as my invention is 1. The platform A, with its overhanging part G, in combination, with the pivoted gaveler d, stud h, pivoted lever 0, connecting-rod 8, and pin of driving crank-wheel 7c, substantially as described.

2. The platform of an ordinary self-raking reaper continued evenly and unbroken to the side of the driving-wheel opposite the cutterbar, to constitute thereat a side platform upon which to mount an automatic binder, in combination with an automatic gaveler, to operate upon said side platform, said gaveler consisting of a toothed head, cl, at the end of a stale or arm,f, lying over and corresponding to the curve of the curve-board of the main platform and hinged to said curve-board.

F. WV. RANDALL.

Witnesses:

E. B. WHITMORE, M. D. PHILLIPS. 

